Image copyright Phillip Krzeminski Image caption What the asteroid strike might have been like The ancest ...

Image copyright Phillip Krzeminski Image caption What the asteroid strike might have been like The ancestors of modern birds may have survived the asteroid strike that wiped out the rest of their kin ...

Image copyright PA Image caption Puffins are known as the "clowns of the sea" due to their colourful beak ...

Image copyright PA Image caption Puffins are known as the "clowns of the sea" due to their colourful beaks There are fears puffin numbers in the Farne Islands are on the decline.Initial findings from ...

Image copyright ESA Image caption The Galileo system was conceived to give Europe an independent sat-nav capability The UK wants the EU to repay £1bn if it is excluded from the Galileo satellite navig ...

Image copyright Google Image caption Researchers are to visit Loch Ness next month DNA sampling is to be ...

Image copyright Google Image caption Researchers are to visit Loch Ness next month DNA sampling is to be used to discover previously unrecorded organisms in Loch Ness.Prof Neil Gemmell, a New Zealand ...

Image copyright SpaceX A joint US-German mission has gone into orbit to weigh the water on Earth. The Gra ...

Image copyright SpaceX A joint US-German mission has gone into orbit to weigh the water on Earth. The Grace satellites are replacing a pair of highly successful spacecraft that stopped working last ye ...

The Eagle Creek wildfire burns in the Columbia River Gorge east of Portland, Ore., in September. The teen ...

The Eagle Creek wildfire burns in the Columbia River Gorge east of Portland, Ore., in September. The teenager who threw the firework that started the fire has been ordered to pay $36.6 million to vict ...